Why are you playing in the window, stick grilles?

Stick grilles is to decorate the environment, render the atmosphere, and place the people's desire to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Window grilles are beautiful in pattern and usually red in color, which is in line with the festive atmosphere of China Spring Festival and is a popular folk art among ordinary people.

Window grillage is a characteristic art of farming culture, and the rural living geographical environment, agricultural production characteristics and social customs also make this local art have distinctive Han folk customs and artistic characteristics. In the past, whether in the north or the south, stick grilles was always visited during the Spring Festival. At present, it is only posted when southerners get married, but it is generally not posted during the Spring Festival, while stick grilles in the north is still quite popular.

Window grilles are rich in content and wide in subject matter. Because the buyers of window grilles are mostly farmers, window grilles have quite a lot of content to express farmers' lives, such as farming, weaving, fishing, herding sheep, raising pigs and chickens. With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with prosperity and celebration.

Window grilles are the most widely distributed, the largest number and the most popular among Han folk paper-cuts. Divided into North and South styles, the South takes "exquisiteness" as its beauty and is characterized by exquisiteness; The beauty of simplicity and vividness in the north is characterized by innocence and integrity. Other paper-cut varieties are developed and extended on the basis of window grilles. During the Spring Festival, people spend time in stick grilles to decorate the environment and render the atmosphere, and hope to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.